BBC: Vegan Diet Could Affect Intelligence | Debunked

Make no mistake, this is a vegan hit piece that only makes negative claims against a vegan diet for intelligence and overall brain health. The errors, out of date research, and exclusion of any positive points deserves a debunk.
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Original Article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

My Meat Made Us Human Response Video:    • TIME: Sorry Vegans, Meat Made Us Huma...  

Starch and Brain Evolution:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/...

Calories in a human brain calculation:  
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-nut...

Extra: Protein is horrible brain energy source: https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org...

Extra: Animal fat bad brain energy source: "26–47% of the energy contained in fatty acids is lost if they are used for gluconeogenesis."
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...

Dramatic Anti-vegan Article 1 on Choline:
https://www.insider.com/does-a-vegan-...

My Choline Video:
   • Vegan Diet Risks Brain Health? Cholin...  

Dramatic Anti-vegan Article 2:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...

Dramatic Article 2's Expert Conflicts:
https://www.minnpost.com/second-opini...

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Position:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Compilation of organization statements: 
https://vomadlife.com/blogs/news/what...

Review Against Vegan and Vegetarian Children: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

India Gender Ratio:
https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio

Study on Vegetarian Gender Ratios that doesn't exist:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

Kenyan Study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

Empathy Study on Vegans:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

Empathy is associated with emotional intelligence:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Creatine Not Essential:  https://aminoacidstudies.org/l-carnos...

Carnosine Not Essential: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

Taurine Not Essential: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

Vegetarians Equal Brain Creatine (slightly higher):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Vegan Health Quote on Creatine Study:
https://veganhealth.org/creatine/#fn6

Duckweed B12: https://www.parabel.com/plant-based-n...

Swiss Vegan Study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

B12 Not Lower in Vegans - Spain Study:
"...differences in vitamin B12 and MMA...not found."
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

B12 Not Lower in Vegans - Runners:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Saturated Fat and Alzheimer's:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

High LDL or bad cholesterol is linked to early onset Alzheimer's: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol....

Choline Content of 200 calories of beef:
https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/h...

Industry Choline Study:
https://www.fasebj.org/doi/pdf/10.109...

Brain Inflammation Neurodegeneration:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Lower C Reactive Protein / Inflammation on Vegan Diet:
“The average CRP level was 5.29 ± 11.7 at baseline and 3.56 ± 8.0 mg/dL post intervention”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Why people hate vegans:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...

Intro/Outro Song: Sedução Momentânea by Roulet:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rou...

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